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Vendor negotiation · BATNA development

Your single-source API supplier announces a 30% price increase, and you know qualifying a second source takes over a year. Walk me through how you'd build leverage before you sit down with them.

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My walk-away, a second source, is real but a year away, so I can't bluff it.

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